The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-04-28

" A'A taoeC0 ~ ~ 00pa0 Ou0Eoo, On
Clinton street. next Sunday. May LIST
An Egyptian red beet, grown In the garden
Of Colonel T. 81. Gamble, was On exhibition al
the store Of Byrd & Denham this week. II
measured 81 inches in circumference and
weighed III pounda
Mr.. w. F. Oldenburg has returned from the
North and will be found at his shop prepared to
do all work In his line
Hon. Poscher L'Engie and wife, of Jackson
vile, were among the guests at the Leen this
week
Hon. E. NJ Graham. of Braidentown, was
at the Capital this week.
Captain 81. T. Blocker leaves to morrow for
Wakulla county, where he will survey and lay
of the town of Greene, in the phosphate section
Mr.. T. II. Bowles. Southern Agent of the
Mutual Life Insurance Company. Of New York
accompanied by Mr.. James A. Marvin, Of Jack
sonville, will visit Tallahassee in the interest OF
this, the largest Life Insurance Company In the
world, about May the fret.
"A perfectly sound body and q mind unim-
paired are possible only with pure blood. Lead
ing medical authorities indorse Ayers Sarsa pa
rila as the best blood purifying medicine in ex-
istence. 1t vastly increases the working and
productive powers Of both hand and brain.
Our fellow townsman, Mr.. w. N. Baker, the
courteous and popular cashier of the State Bank
of Florida, has lately been promoted to place
of distinguished honor. He is now the Grand
Master Of that famous society known Is the Odd
Fellows, and:the position he holds with this body
is the highest in its gift, and shows conclusively
the esteem with which he is regarded by the
order. The many friends of Mr.. Baker will
learn of this intelligence with pleasure, and the
Herald sincerely congratulates him, and hopes
he will long enjoy his honors.- Jacksonville
HERALD
The rain of last Sunday and Monday was
much needed in this locality. and our farming
community are much grat6ed. 1t could not
have come in a more opportune time. 1t ex-
tended over large area.
-Wanton S. Webb, the irrepressible, the en-
ergetic, the omnipresent advertiser of the merits
and wealth of Florida. accompanied by his assis-
tant, Mr.. 8. Paul Brown, was in Tallahassee last
Friday and Saturday. They were on their way
from Pensacola, where Colonel Webb has just
completed q handsome directory which meets
with loudest encomiums from citizens and press
The Colonel is full to the brim with his new and
original plan of palace advertising car of Flor
ida to make the tour of the Northern expositions
and fairs this fall and winter. This idea is GER
tainly novel and good one, and we will in the
near future give our readers a detailed account
of its arrangement. Tallahassee is much inter-
ested in bringing the merits and beauties of Mid
die Florida as place of residence before the peo
pie reached by this plan, and Colonel Webb will,
without doubt meet with substantial encourage
ment when he calls upon our citizens His abil-
ity and integrity are fully recognized and appre
cated
Speaker Pasco spent last Sunday with his
family at Monticello. He is but slowly recover
ing from a severe cold, and his voice has not yet
quite recovered its normal functions.
"A larger number of the members took ad-
vantage of no caucus last Saturday night, and
spent Sunday with their friends at home. A
sufficiently large number, however, were left in
Tallahassee to execrate the gloomy weather
which prt vailed all day long.
Harry Fish removed this week with his
family to Ellaville, where he will have charge of
one of the engines in the large saw mills of L.
Bucki & Son. Mr.. Fish and family are exem-
Diary citizens and we commend them to the
good graces of the people of Ellaville.
The Western Union Telegraph Office was
moved on Monday from it's old quarters in the
FLoRIDIAN block to the north room on the
ground floor of the st. James Hotel The re-
moval was made under the direct supervision of
Division Superintendent Bremen, of Augusta,
and the arrangements were 80 perfected as to
cause not an instant's delay in the transmission
of business. The new quarters are much more
arranged. and the facilities Tor
doing business speedily and satisfactorily largely
increased.
We omitted to mention last week that the
FLoRIDIAN Office was in receipt of fine basket
of the celebrated navel oranges of California
from Senator 81. s. Williams. The Senator had
a boxful of this much-vaunted fruit of the Pa
cifc coast, sent him as a sample to compare
with Florida oranges Leaving out all bias or
pride of State products, we can truthfully say
that these oranges land they were selected from
the best of the crop will not compare with any
of the thin skinned Florida oranges, and are as
inferior TO q genuine Indian River" as 1t is
possible for them to be and be called an orange.
Col A. L. Ximsnies, of ST. Augustine, o. 3
Inspector of the ninth customs district, was at
the New Leon yesterday
Mr.. Fred Fisher and wife, who travelled
overland from Nebraska, reached the Tallahas-
see country last week They are camping out
and prospecting for location, and are pleased
with our beautiful and fertile hill country.
Sheriff Sessions, of Suwannee county, made
pleasant call on the FLoRIDIAN last Tuesday.
Hon J. W. Evan, of Dade county, accom-
panied by Mr. j. L. Bryan. of Tallahassee. and
Mr.. Morton, editor of the Staunton (Va) Vsnds-
Gator. took q drive down to Wakulla Springs
during the week. Mr.. Evans long experience
in the Seminole country was exemplified BY his
revolver shooting He "pinked" two squirrels
from his seat in the carriage and we have or did
have-,he squirrels to prove this story. We can
produce the man who ate them at any rate.
On Friday Mrs. w. D. Bloxham leaves for
St. Augustine for q short visit She will be &C
companied by Miss Bledsoe who has been spend
ing the winter with her in this city. Miss Bled-
zoe returns to her home in Staunton, Virginia,
after her St. Augustine visit, much to the regret
of the young ladies and gentlemen-especially
oentlsmen-of Tallahassee.
The FLoRIDIAN was pleased TO receive a call
this afternoon from Capt. John Trplett, the
popular editor Of the Thomasville (Ga.) 1s"'es,
Hon. 8. G. McLeudon, attorney for the Savan-
nah. Florida and Western railway, and Mr..
Mitchell. of Townsville Col. McLendon in